| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XXX. About the well which from mine eies did flow | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | ABOUT the well which from mine eies did flow, | |
| The woefull witnes of harts desolation: | |
| Yet teares nor woe nor ought could worke compassion, | |
| Did diuers trees of sundry natures growe. | |
| The mirrhe sweet bleeding in the latter wound, | 5 |
| Into the christall waues her teares did power: | |
| As pittying me on whome blind loue did lower, | |
| Vpon whose backe I wrote my sorrows ground, | |
| And on her rugged rind I wrote forlorne, | |
| Forlorne I wrote for sorrowe me oppressed: | 10 |
| Oppressing sorrowe had my hart distressed, | |
| And made the abiect outcast of loues scorne, | |
| The leaues conspiring with the winds sweet sounding, | |
| With gentle murmor playnd my harts deepe wounding. | | | | |
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